This is what building NYC's new subway stations looks like

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This is what building NYC's new subway stations looks like
BY ELIZABETH PIERSON6 hours ago
Manhattan's east side is a notorious subway desert.

But come December 2016, eastsiders will rejoice because phase one of the Second Avenue Subway is slated to finally be complete.

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“The $4.45 billion project is 82% complete,” Dr. Michael Horodniceanu, president of Capital Construction at Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said, as he walked photographer Bhushan Mondkar along the newly installed train tracks.

“The remaining 18% is the toughest –- testing a multitude of new systems, such as signals, communication, electrical, fire safety to work together, and integrating them with the existing infrastructure is the biggest challenge — but we are confident the project will open on time."

Phase one will add three new stations at 72nd, 86th and 96th streets, and the existing station at 63rd and Lexington Avenue is also getting a makeover. Once opened, the Q train will be rerouted along this line.

Arrangements have also been made to incorporate a new "T line" in the future, which is planned to run from 125th street down Second Avenue to Hannover Square in the Financial District.

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  Looking down into the platform level from the mezzanine at the 72nd street station.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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  Expansion of the existing station at 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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  Tunnel between the 72nd and 86th street stations.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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  The ramp on the right will eventually carry the ‘T line’ when the Second Avenue subway extends into the third and fourth phase.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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  Shadows cast down on the tunnels that will house escalators carrying passengers down to the mezzanine level.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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  One of the entrances leading passengers from the street level to the mezzanine level.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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  Escalators will carry passengers from the mezzanine to the platform level.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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  North end of the 72nd Street station heading into the tunnels.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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  Newly installed tracks along the tunnels between 63rd and 72nd street stations.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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  Column-free spaces at the platform level.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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  Communication room with the CBTC system.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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  The inside of a tunnel amid construction.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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  The massive tunnel slopes from the street level to the mezzanine level and will house three escalators.
  
  IMAGE: BHUSHAN MONDKAR
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[MewTwo]

not impressed

 

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meanwhile in moscow

 

[tmonster]

cool

 

[ORDER_66]

I could care less I drive I rarely take the train anymore

 

[GoldTeef]

The first picture looks like something out of a post-apocalyptic video game

 

[ORDER_66]

The first picture looks like something out of a post-apocalyptic video game

 

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meanwhile in moscow

The MTA would not be able to keep it clean and it would get vandalized.

 

[88m3]

The MTA would not be able to keep it clean and it would get vandalized.

I frankly doubt all the stations look that nice in Moscow. Oh and the downside is you live in Russia.


Penn Station and Grand Central are fine, the original Penn Station was a masterpiece. Some of the subway stations have wifi now, I'd say the general upkeep and cleanliness verges on depraved...

 

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I frankly doubt all the stations look that nice in Moscow. Oh and the downside is you live in Russia.


Penn Station and Grand Central are fine, the original Penn Station was a masterpiece. Some of the subway stations have wifi now, I'd say the general upkeep and cleanliness verges on depraved...

One of my professors this semester talked about the old Penn Station when we spoke about Robert Moses. He spoke about how beautiful it was and a complete mistake to demolish it. I looked up pics of it and was because of the dump they replaced it with

 

[GunRanger]

The subways are disgusting. Dirty, piss everywhere, rats - you name it.


And more Manhattan bullshyt getting renovations. Like BK dont need some too

 

[88m3]

One of my professors this semester talked about the old Penn Station when we spoke about Robert Moses. He spoke about how beautiful it was and a complete mistake to demolish it. I looked up pics of it and was because of the dump they replaced it with

Yep, disgusting. I was trying to remember why it was torn down according to this it was for MSG(it also resulted in the landmarks board being created), reading what I have about how MSG's does business and contracts with the city... they're corrupt and greedy as hell.
These are just the highlights but if you go to citylab or curbed you'll get the big picture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden#Current_Garden

10 Gorgeous, Nostalgic Photos of New York's Old Penn Station
Fifty years after its destruction, the iconic building is gone but not forgotten.

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• Oct 28, 2013
  
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Fifty years ago today, on October 28, 1963, destruction began on the original Pennsylvania Station in New York. The iconic Beaux Arts structure, designed by McKim, Mead, and White, opened in 1910 with a distinct air of grandeur: an exterior surrounded by 84 Doric columns, a concourse with a 150-foot vaulted ceiling, and a train shed of "unparalleled monumentality," in the words of historian Carroll Meeks.

"Such opulent dimensions were not functionally necessary; the companies could afford magnificence and enjoyed their munificent role, as princes had in predemocratic ages," wrote Meeks in his 1956 book, The Railroad Station: An Architectural History.

In the mid-1950s, a proposal emerged to raze the station and construct in its place a home for the World's Fair — the so-called "Palace of Progress." That plan fell apart, but a new one surfaced in 1960, this one led by the Madison Square Garden Corporation. That project, detailed by the New York Times in July 1961 [PDF], made room for the arena by flattening the existing Penn Station and building an underground one instead.

Some historically minded residents rallied to save the station. On a hot August evening in 1962, the Action Group for Better Architecture in New York gathered more than a hundred well-dressed protestors to circle the Penn Station entrance, but ultimately their preservation efforts fell short. In a Times editorial published just after the demolition began, Ada Louise Huxtable wrote that the city would some day be judged "not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed" [PDF].

Photographer Cervin Robinson captured the original station in a series of pictures taken for the Historic American Buildings Survey in the spring of 1962 (below). Robinson laments the station's demise but notes that at least some good came out of the situation. The city's historical preservation movement gained considerable momentum in the aftermath of the old Penn Station's demolition.

"The loss of the building was a great loss but it such an obvious loss that it helped the city in the long run," Robinson says. "People suddenly realized that New York could tear down things it should never have torn down."

The current Penn Station is certainly an eyesore, especially compared with its classic predecessor, but its own destruction may occur in the not-so-distant future. City officials recently gave Madison Square Garden ten years to find another location, clearing the way for a brand new Penn in its place. Still, there are many questions to be answered before that day arrives, and Robinson for one doubts anything can match the glory of the original.

"These are obviously not the days when great historic railway stations get built," says Robinson. "I think they would do something that was better than they've got, but not quite as good as what they had."

View from the southeast.

Facade from the northeast.

Facade from the southeast.

West end of south (31st Street) facade.

Waiting room from southwest.

Waiting room from the northwest.

Stairway from waiting room to arcade.

Concourse from southeast.

Concourse from south.

Concourse from southwest.

All images courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
http://www.citylab.com/design/2013/10/10-gorgeous-nostalgic-photos-new-yorks-old-penn-station/7384/

 

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The subways are disgusting. Dirty, piss everywhere, rats - you name it.


And more Manhattan bullshyt getting renovations. Like BK dont need some too

It's not like a little tile, concrete, and paint are going to break the bank!

 

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